Reading List
- Link o’ the week: 13 tips for making responsive web design multi-lingual by the BBC, who serve 250 million page views a month in 28 languages, and are thus unlikely to be bullshitting.
- Safari is the new IE writes Nolan Lawson after Edge Conference: “we in the web community need to come to terms with the fact that Safari has become the new IE.” (Note that Nolan acknowledges that there are some mistakes in this article.)
- Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice in iOS is by Kenneth Auchenberg. I agree; as I said in my 2013 Fronteers talk What the web needs next, a big impediment to the health of the Web are siloed devices that only allow one OS and/or one browser.
- Why Web Components will make the web a better place for our users – by Kaelig of
The GuardianThe BBCFT Labs - What kind of Web Components do we need? Hidde de Vries asks who needs to use them, and to solve what problems?
- Over the Edge: Web Components are an endangered species by Chris Heilmann after Edge Conf. “Web Components are a chicken and egg problem where we are currently trying to define the chicken and have many a different idea what an egg could be.” As usual, the flame-haired web standards adonis talks a lot of sense.
- Practical Questions around Web Components by Ian Feather. Nice to see some practical diuscussion.
- Web Accessibility in Polymer – Web Platform podcast
- React + Performance = ? – Paul ‘It’s my round, gang!’ Lewis tests React vs Vanilla JS. “For mobile there’s a remarkable cost to using React over not doing so”.
- Container Queries: Once More Unto the Breach – Matttttttt Marquis bids farewell to Element Queries, showcases the concepts behind Container Queries
- Death to Icon Fonts – Seren Davies explains why icon fonts are bad for her as a dyslexic. Includes unflattering photo of me.
- The Web is getting its bytecode: WebAssembly – “The next step in the evolution of JavaScript and asm.js is to do away with both of them”
- WebAssembly: a binary format for the web by Axel Rauschmayer
- “Data-Driven Performance” breakout at #edgeconf, notes by @steveworkman
- ‘Availability” – an #edgeconf-inspired post by @sil from the Prog Enhancement sesh we both attended.
- Daniel Glazman resigns as CSS Working Group co-chair – thanks and adieu, Daniel.
- Audio Formats for Gapless Web Playback by Syd Lawrence. Also, Part 2: Synced Web Audio Playback
- Conditional comments block downloads – about how (er..) conditional comments block downloads. With a fix!
- Domain Anonymity and the Brilliance of Entertainment Lobbyists – “when has the entertainment industry ever proposed something good for consumers or the internet?”
- Pictures of Chinese People Scanning QR Codes – not a joke; they do it a *lot* because URLs are alphanumeric and thus hard to remember when your language is ideogrammatical
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